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June 17, 2009There’s a little thing I do when I can’t write: When I’m feeling sleepy, when my head is in a...
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June 17, 2009In 2002, a new government came into power in Kenya with a mandate to clean up government and recruited Githongo...
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![Answering terror with terror “The Dark Side” by Jane Mayer]( "Answering terror with terror “The Dark Side” by Jane Mayer")
June 14, 2009In “The Dark Side,” Jane Mayer chronicles the terrible, destructive decisions the Bush administration made in the name of fighting...
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![‘A Mercy’ By TONI MORRISON]( "‘A Mercy’ By TONI MORRISON")
June 14, 2009The fate of a slave child abandoned by her mother animates this allusive novel — part Faulknerian puzzle, part dream-song...
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![NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill Part Two]( "NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill Part Two")
June 14, 2009The next day a small piece runs in the Metro section. It has been established that Chuck Ramkissoon’s body lay...
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![NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill Part One]( "NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill Part One")
June 14, 2009O’Neill’s seductive ode to New York — a city that even in bad times stubbornly clings to its belief “in...
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![A Modern make-over for an old fang]( "A Modern make-over for an old fang")
June 14, 2009The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro – The scene provides an appropriately cinematic curtain-raiser for The Strain, a modern-day vampire...
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![Junky by William S Burroughs]( "Junky by William S Burroughs")
June 14, 2009I was born in 1914 in a solid, three-storey house in the midwest. My parents were comfortable and I went...
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April 11, 2009At the Coq d’Or the next Friday, Piasecki said, “You know the mistake most people make?”
“What?”
“They buy a beach house....
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April 11, 2009He went up his front walk and into the house, where he found Stephanie in the kitchen, next to the...
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April 11, 2009“No,” Kendall allowed.
“All the money he’s got and you and me are both freelance. And you think he’s some kind...
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April 10, 2009A lot of what Tocqueville described sounded nothing like the America Kendall knew. Other judgments seemed to part a curtain,...
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April 10, 2009This is the first part in Jeffrey Eugenides short story that was published in the New Yorker – we thought...
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